My blog on SharePoint, Power Platform and related stuff.
In this blog post I will show how to dynamically switch SharePoint Document Libraries based on a string to perform further actions like creating a folder. I've used this pattern for dynamic folder creation where the sheer scale of folders required dedicated Document Libraries based on alphabetic ranges (A-F, G-M, N-T, U-Z). My demo SharePoint … Continue reading Use Power Automate to dynamically switch Document Libraries based on a string
In this blog post I will out line how Power Automate can be used to create a folder in a SharePoint document library and then store the link to the newly created folder inside of Microsoft Lists. I have used this pattern numerous times for business processes where transactional metadata and document storage are required. … Continue reading Use Power Automate to create a folder in SharePoint with link back to Microsoft Lists
I’m sharing my “A 50 minute digital transformation” slide deck from the M365 Saturday Saskatchewan 2020 - Virtual. Thanks to those that attended, I really appreciate it! NY a-50-minute-digital-transformation-m365saskDownload
In this blog post I will show how to use a "button" to "move" an item from one list to another using JSON column formatting. The Create a button to launch a Flow for the selected item JSON code was developed Chris Kent and I have used it to great effect when manual archiving items … Continue reading Use Power Automate to move Microsoft Lists items to another list
In this blog I will show how to take action based on a value in a Microsoft Lists column using Power Automate. A typical use case for this pattern is a change in status value to completed. In my example I will be using the Microsoft Lists Issue Tracker template and when the "Status" column … Continue reading Take action based on value in Microsoft Lists column using Power Automate
This article originally appears on the AvePoint blog as SharePoint vs. Microsoft Teams: Why They’re Better Together. Change. There is so much change in the Microsoft 365 platform that users can feel lost in a sea of like-named and functioning apps. Take OneDrive and OneNote for example. Or how about a Team site and Teams? … Continue reading SharePoint vs. Microsoft Teams: Why They’re Better Together
In this blog post I will show how to send email reminders for Microsoft Lists items based on a date column using Power Automate. I am using a customized version of the Microsoft Lists Issue Tracker template. See Microsoft Lists: Updated Issue Tracker for more info. Automated email reminders give users time and opportunity to intervene … Continue reading Send email reminders from Microsoft Lists using Power Automate
In my previous blog post I outlined how Power Automate can be used to get responses from Microsoft Forms into Microsoft List. As a follow up to that post, I will show how to add attachments from Forms to Microsoft Lists using Power Automate. See my previous blog post for the form, List and Flow … Continue reading Add attachments from Forms to Microsoft Lists using Power Automate
In this blog post I will outline how to get responses from Microsoft Forms into Microsoft Lists using Power Automate. I am using the Microsoft Lists, Issue tracker template for my examples. I have created a new Forms form that aligns its questions to the Issue tracker list columns. This is how my list column … Continue reading Get responses from Forms to Microsoft Lists using Power Automate
In my last blog post I took a closer look at the Issue Tracker template that comes part of the new Microsoft Lists application. A part of the review was to compare "Issue Tracker" to "Issue Tracking" (the previous iteration of Issue Tracker) to help highlight the value of the new template and to also … Continue reading Microsoft Lists: Updated Issue Tracker
